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More Star Trek news than you can shake a Klingon disruptor at.

The Star Trek Experience is reopening in Vegas. Yahoo! Now I don't have to make my own Warp Core Breach.

The upcoming Star Trek MMORPG may suck me in but I still think this Klingon "Raptor" class ship looks like crap. I prefer the old school ship look to the blah Next Gen style that's been here since the 80's. And what's with the Klingon's naming a ship? The whole thing is they're too busy kicking ass to bother with naming their ships. That's why they just use classifications like "D-7."

Bryan Fuller of "Pushing Daisies" wants to bring the Trek back to television. I'd forgottent that Fuller has a lot of Trek experience as a writer/ producer on two of the t.v. series. His vision is a retro-Trek utilizing the 60's style. I love this idea which is why it will never see the light of day.

The entire Next Gen cast including Patrick Stewart will be reuniting on an upcoming episode of Family Guy.

I love the original Trek but the idea of the series on Blu Ray makes me ill. The print/ quality of the original stock just isn't that good not to mention the fact it was shot to be displayed on the crappy tvs of the era. Under DVD quality you can see Shatner sweat under Klieg lights and easily discern where Nimoy's rubber ears are glued on.

- Dean

Star Trek the Experience Memories

Back in March 2007 the wife and I took a trip to Las Vegas. I hadn’t been blogging very long so I was a kinda overwhelmed about how to cover the whole trip so I just didn’t. I had been to Las Vegas before back in 1991 and I was pretty blown away by all the changes. The highlight of this mini vaction for me was Star Trek the Experience. It was a geek’s dream come true. Recently, Dean Wormer told me that this theme ride had closed down in September (I’d been too busy to notice with the Baby and the election) therefore I decided to show some of the photos I snapped… I wish I’d taken a lot more…

The entrance to the Ride/Show area of STtE had an amazing collection of props used in the various films and TV shows. I wanted to take a little more time in this area but I didn’t want to bore the wife, as she wasn’t familiar with Star Trek. This one was my favorite display cases as it had Nomad, the 3-D Chess set and miniskirt uniform.


You can see Voyager and Deep Space Nine uniforms but I can't remember where the one in the middle is supposed to be from.


Cast photos of the shows


A vulcan case, you can see Sarek's costume and Spock's harp.


Spock's Casket from ST II and ST III.


A Borg display to get you hyped up for the Borg Invasion 4-D. Starngly I didn't take any pictures of the other side that had all the Klingon stuff.


Borg Queen mannequin.

Quark's Bar was on the lower level next to the giftshop. The wife and I had a lot of fun eating there and I tried the Romulan Ale. Every section of the Bar had a different TV screen playing one of the ST films over and over again.

The salt sucking monster from the "Man Trap" episode of ST:TOS. This mannequin was on the lower level by Quark's Bar.


The classic Gorn from the ST:TOS episode "Arena." This mannequin was on the lower level by Quark's Bar.


Voyager and Enterprise D hung from the ceiling.

The show's themselves were expensive but very exciting. Of course the newer Borg Invasion 4-D was better than the dated Klingon Encounter, because it had a more interactive experience and the Borg are scarier villains. I have to admit, though, when I stood on the bridge of the Enterprise D (the Next Generation) during the The Klingon Encounter from the perspective of the crew, it was transportive experience so to speak.




There is some talk about opening the show again at Neonopolis Mall in Downtown Las Vegas.

-Swinebread